The curse on self-murder

著者

• Murray, Alexander

書誌事項

The curse on self-murder

（Suicide in the Middle Ages / by Alexander Murray, v. 2）

Oxford University Press, 2011, c2000

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [599]-601) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house. Then they go and fetch a heavy, sagging object from inside the house, pull it out through the tunnel, and put it on a cow-hide to be dragged off and thrown into the offal-pit. Why should the corpse of a suicide - for that is what it is - have earned this unusual treatment? In The Curse on Self-Murder, Alexander Murray explores the origin of the condemnation of suicide, in a quest which leads along the most unexpected byways of medieval theology, law, mythology, and folklore -and, indeed, in some instances beyond them. At an epoch when there might be plenty of ostensible reasons for not wanting to live, the ways used to block the suicidal escape route give a unique perspective on medieval religion.

目次

• PRACTICE
• 1. The Body
• 2. The Property
• THEORY: THE WRITTEN INHERITANCE
• 3. Religion
• 4. Philosophy
• 5. Law
• THEORY: THE MEDIEVAL CONTRIBUTION
• 6. Theology: The Age of Reticence
• 7. Theology: Suicide Discovered
• 8. Canonists and Jurists
• 9. Occasional Theology
• 10. Judas
• 11. The Sin of Despair
• THE ROOTS OF TABOO: POLLUTION AND THE COMMUNITY
• 12. Intention without Act
• 13. Act without Intention
• 14. The Community as Judge
• THE ROOTS OF TABOO: THE UNWRITTEN INHERITANCE
• 15. The Curse in Antiquity
• 16. The Curse in Other Cultures

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB11044552
• ISBN:
  • 9780199553181
• LCCN: 2009286059
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Oxford
• ページ数/冊数: xxiii, 620 p., [17] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HV6544
  • DC21 : 362.28/094/0902
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Suicide -- History
  • LCSH : Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500
  • LCSH : Church and social problems
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA42232221